Of course TO Bake a Cake or maybe two or three or four or five lol ... sheesh

This is the cake that I baked and designed for my sister's baby shower. I made a simple yellow cake with a simple wedding white frosting.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a113/SSanguine/cake2.jpg

2inch deep double layer of a 14' and 6' inch pans ....

The icing ...

INGREDIENTS
1 cup shortening
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tspn clear imitation vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 tspn imatation butter flavor
1/2 cup water
8 cups sifted confectioners' sugar

DIRECTIONS
Mix shortening, water, vanilla, almond extract, butter flavor,and half of the powdered sugar with a mixer for 5-10 minutes. (important to mix this long)
Add the rest of the powdered sugar and beat just enough to mix in. Use a spatula to fold in sides and avoid over mixing your icing!

Additional water for desired consistency.


Colored Sky Blue for cake base with wilton's food coloring gel and for the chocolate swirls I blended in left over white icing with unsweetened dutch cocoa :) I have a stand mixer so this is a super easy icing to make and the first mixing parts don't seem so tiresome when you can be getting other things prepared ;)

I`m glad you know how to Bake and cook.

All the girls I know don`t know how to boil and egg! :rolleyes:

I hope some day you bake a Jew in the oven!:krofl:krofl:krofl

where were you on my birthday.. i had to buy a cake like a sucker

where were you on my birthday.. i had to buy a cake like a sucker

Awww poor mj .... I don't even have cake on my birthday ! :rolleyes:

Beautiful cake SSanguine.

Ability to cook is one of the best features a woman can have, IMHO. And it's definitely missing in most women. I bet not even one percent of women under 40 know how to make good cornbread:

http://www.ansonmills.com/page19/page5/files/page5_1.jpg

GREL

mmmmm Cornbread baked in a cast iron skillet .... yum yum With navy beans and ham .... Off to the grocery store :D

mmmmm Cornbread baked in a cast iron skillet .... yum yum With navy beans and ham .... Off to the grocery store :D

Glad I inspired you.:) Somehow, this McD's cheeseburger I'm munching on just isn't as tasty anymore.:(

GREL

Nicely done and very beautiful. I love cooking and baking, but it is sometimes difficult to find the time to prepare a "creation". You have outdone yourself.

Wow. That's great! I can bake, just don't ask me to decorate :eek: One of my first jobs was makng specialty desserts, but I never had steady enough hands to design like you. Instead I would do the basics, let someone decorate and then I would package. My boss thought some of my designed goods were so bad and unsaleable that he let me take them home and eat them. :D

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a113/SSanguine/11-16-07_1716.jpg

I baked this one the other day -- It is just a simple small 6inch One layer devil's food with white icing and chopped milk chocolate, but my sometimes it's nice to have a little dessert treat for the family ;) Apologies for the picture quality -- I took it with my cellphone

Beautiful cake SSanguine.

Ability to cook is one of the best features a woman can have, IMHO. And it's definitely missing in most women. I bet not even one percent of women under 40 know how to make good cornbread...

By God, my girlfriend certainly does. :D